Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [n mass] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're only people on their holiday , ’ she said ; ‘ they 're just enjoying themselves . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps they 're only people on holiday . ’ |
| 3 | There are always people on this land : a boy sitting on a grazing buffalo , a girl cutting short , dusty grass with a sharp hand-held hoe , filling a basket to take home for the oxen . |
| 4 | Holiday bookings are up 20% on last year and the stresses and strains of the recession and high interest rates are forcing smaller travel operators out of business . |
| 5 | ‘ There was a massive drop in demand , but so far this year registrations are up 10pc on last year . |
| 6 | The limit is usually taken to be about .05mm on the film . |
| 7 | The company said end of year financial results — which recorded its first profitable quarter , thought to be around $1m on revenues of $45m — will give it the opportunity to concentrate on software . |
| 8 | The car market has been similarly hit by deferred purchases : car sales in April this year were down 24% on April 1990 . |
| 9 | Overall sales were down 55% on last year when profits from autioneering were $139 million . |
| 10 | Company failures in the first quarter of 1991 were up 77% on the same period last year . |
| 11 | Compaq Computer Corp took the lead in the European portable personal computer market in the first quarter of 1993 according to Dataquest figures which give Compaq 22% by value and 17.5% by volume , and the manufacturer says that shipments in the period were up 89% on the first quarter of 1992 , growing four times the rate of the market , which expanded 21% — and those figures reveal the reason that Dell Computer Corp has stumbled badly in laptops and notebooks : buyers are going for the higher cost 80486-based machines that abound in Compaq 's line , while Dell 's product emphasises low-price 80386SX-based machines . |
| 12 | Sequent Computer Systems Inc , reporting second quarter net profits of $3.0m against a loss last time of $19.8m , on sales up 44.1% at $72.2m , says that in the UK , sales were up 90% on the year-ago period , and rose 89% in the quarter , 87% in the half , across Europe as a whole . |
| 13 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 14 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 15 | In the fixed-commission mid-1960s , profit margins were about 25% on total revenue . |
| 16 | Figures released yesterday for the first four months of the year show total crime in the county is up 12pc on this time last year , with the detection rate down by 3pc . |
| 17 | The volume of semiconductor business was up 8% on last year after product line pruning . |